October 2012

Mikee’s Mail Day: MVH’s Unpainted DX Sludge Demon!

So yes, I admittedly took a week off from mail, but that’s ’cause I was going toy wild at this year’s NYCC!! I will be posting a full Mikee’s Mail Day: NYCC Edition soon, but first I wanted to showcase one toy in particular:

To be completely honest, I love Mutant Vinyl Hardcore’s DX Sludge Demon. I think it’s my favorite sculpt this year; it has this fun/creepy look that reminds me of the movie Ghoulies. Add the fact that I, too, am a very sick and twisted individual who was raised on horror movies and Misfits records, and you can see why this toy may be my soul mate. Rich Montanari Jr., the evil mastermind behind MVH, is a long lost brother from another mother!! Out of the four Sludge DX releases at NYCC (YES! Four! I bought five!), two were themed on horror movies. Did you read what I just wrote? Two were themed on horror movies!!! The header card art for the above “Chest Burster” is riddled with Alien references! I almost cried.

(I instead went back to the place I was crashing at and watched Prometheus, but I wanted to cry.)

It’s also worth noting that this release was coupled with a print by Scarecrowoven. The print is layered and gorgeous and terrifying.

With MVH ready to release a painted version of the DX Sludge Demon in the next month or so, I can’t wait to add to the MVH collection. It’s October, guys: embrace your inner Mikee and be creepy! Don’t sleep on something this awesome!

Until next time, live that 24/7 Toy Life!

Destination DesignerCon: Scott Wilkowski’s MouseMask Murphy

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The Great Pumpkin or Scott Wilkowski showed us today that MouseMask Murphy will be coming to Designer Con for “…of All Ages Part II”. Not too much news as of yet, but we all know these will be in high high demand and low quantity. Personally, these slay the original design.

The fun happens Nov 3.

Designer Con
Pasadena Convention Center
300 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101

 

UME Toy’s Franken DeeDees

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Starting tomorrow,  Oct. 22.,  UME Toys will release the Franken DeeDees for Halloween, “sporting a Frankenstein make over including rusty bolts in her neck.”  Keep checking here for the release.

Creative Spark’s “Little Print Shop of Horrors II”

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Creative Spark, is a branding agency based in London and for the second time they are doing some really cool charity work. They have brought back “Little Print shop of Horrors” for a second go around to help benefit cancer charities. The re-imagination of film posters is a big scene now, and it is a good time to help do some good. If you would like to get some of these and help out, just look here. The only small problem is that they only deliver in the UK, so get a friend there to hook you up. I am loving the simplistic goodness of many of these.

All proceeds go to Marie Curie Cancer Care.

View the Vivacious World of Valency Genis

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Ah!, Valency Genis, a vital gear in the world of Circus Posterus and a hilarious minion that cracks everyone up (she will kill me for that I think). Well Valency besides both of those, is an amazing talent and her work is a pleasure to enrich any wall!

Valency has an aptitude for creating creatures that even Dr. Seuss never dreamed up, and she has a fondness for putting these creations in the form of a taxidermy wall mount. Now do not be alarmed because these lovely animals are not true taxidermy but the much preferred proper faux taxidermy. Honestly, where else will you see a wall mount with an animal resembling the extinct genus Hippotragus leucophaeus with guinea worms all over it? The animals run from fascinating antlered walrus creations to the not so mythical chupacabra, but these are fun creations that are just like her personality. With Valency, the gambit is endless on what she can do with her art, and I can’t wait to see what awesomeness she is contributing to Stranger Factory’s “Subterrane” group sculpture exhibit coming Nov. 9.

To see more of her amazing work, visit her site here.

 

Destination Designer Con: CJ Metzger and Miss Mindy

 

Remember THIS show from February that had Miss Minday and CJ Metzger gracing Stanger Factory? Well, you will get to see these lovable sisters in Pasadena at Designer Con this year.

They joining Leanna Lin’s Wonderland booth, and CJ will be signing her special edition mini book  “Tiny Muses”. You better get there when you can because there will only be 25 and all come with a special print. Miss Mindy has a secret release you will just have to wait for.

Four Artists celebrate the Day of the Dead with “Amigos de los Muertos”

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Artists Jeral Tidwell, Angryblue, Roberto Jaras Lira, and David Lozeau have come together to put a book together celebrating the Day of the Dead. “Amigos de los Muertos” shows off four different styles on numerous takes of this holiday. Flip threw the pages in the book to see sugar skulls, dancing skeletons, dead musicians, the grim reaper, and more.You can pick this up from the artists themselves here.

 

New Swan and Gourdy Goodness from Scott Radke

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Scott Radke continues with his Elf-like animal hybrids with a stunning collection of Swans, now available on his website. Looking on with the curiously vacant gaze present in all of Scott’s work, these gentle creatures long for a place to call home. Of the trio, Swans #80 and #81 remain. Each sculpture sits around 14 inches high and 11 inches long. Email Scott at scott@scottradke.com if you’re looking to adopt.

And just in time for the harvest are a small group of gourds, due to emerge from the earth anytime now. Each of the wall-mount sculpts is about 9 inches tall and 4 inches wide, and all are unique. The Jack-o’-lantern style face works really well on these — those beady eyes see right through you. More news as soon as the paint flies!

Destination Designer Con: Nonesuch Garden

I love the news coming in for Designer Con! Now I have a deluge of info for what Nonesuch Garden has coming to the Pasadena Convention Center, and you can file this under adorable!

Nonesuch Garden is the creations of Megan Baehr, who works some plush magic alongside painting as well. She will making her first trip to Designer Con, so everyone should stop by and say hello while picking up some sweet goods.

Ok enough banter, and let us take a look at what she has coming to Dcon!

Above we have The Berry Sproutlings
The Berry Sproutlings will be available for for an adoption fee of $415 each. You will also receive a copy of the Sproutling Care Guide, a Certificate of Authenticity, and a cute box to carry your Sproutling home in! Hooray!

The Sproutlings are created using air dry clay and a dry felting technique called needle felting. Needle felting is achieved by poking wool roving with a barbed needle over and over again until the desired shape forms. This method of felting is extremely time consuming, but the seamless results are well worth it! Sproutlings have a wire armature inside them that allows for gentle posing. No molds or patterns of any kind are used to make these one of a kind art dolls.

Also Sproutling brooches for $50 each, 1.5 inches high, made with the same materials as the full dolls. The grumpy faces are the best IMO!

Nonesuch Dolls

A collection of 24 different Nonesuch Dolls will be available. Adoption fees range from $75 to $175. I will also be taking pre-orders for designs I don’t have with me and accepting a limited number of custom orders from Designer Con attendees only for my November/December queue. All orders placed at the con will receive free shipping!

The Nonesuch Dolls were specifically designed to be customizable. I wanted the possibilities to be endless while maintaining a unique style and point of view. Each doll is hand sewn from my own, original patterns. They are made out of wool felt, embroidery floss, and polyester fiber fill. I sometimes use acrylic paint for details. They are typically 4.75 inches (12cm) tall and have string jointed arms and legs which allows them to hold simple poses.

Megan will also have the Tiny Monsters original watercolor paintings on hand.